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[Networker] What order are files recovered?

2006-02-24 15:59:28
Subject: [Networker] What order are files recovered?
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:56:57 -0500
Kind of a dumb question here ...

I ran a saveset recover recently and noticed that it doesn't seem to recover the files in any specific order. The order that the files get recovered doesn't match an 'ls' on the same pathname. For example, 'ls' shows: file201.txt, file202.txt ... file209.txt and then file210.txt ..., but the recovery doesn't recover file210.txt immediately after file209.txt. Instead, file210.txt gets recovered maybe 100 files later. For the most part, the recovery order does agree with 'ls', but there's a lot of gaps, but in the end, everything is recovered.

The path was saved from the client using 'save -b pool -l full /pathname'. The pool does not allow browsing.

Is it safe to assume that the data was recovered based on how it was saved, and the data is saved based on how it's written to actual disk (block level?). Obviously, 'ls' displays things in alphabetical order, but does NetWorker back up files in any specific order?

Thanks.

George

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